One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette's cousin Adeline. For example, several scenes feature artists like Jean-Jacques Bixiou, who first appeared in 1837's Les Employés and in many other books thereafter. [14] Another suggests that this effort was "almost the last straw which broke down Balzac's gigantic strength". Alors que cette dernière vient d’épouser Célestin Crevel, spoliant Célestine et Victorin de l’immense fortune paternelle, une intervention de madame de Saint-Estève (l’empoisonneuse déjà rencontrée dans Illusions perdues et Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes) fait périr d’un mal mystérieux la perverse Valérie Marneffe. They developed an affectionate friendship in letters, and when she became a widow in 1841, Balzac sought her hand in marriage. ")[95][96], Bette's relationship with Valérie is layered with overtones of lesbianism. This regimen of constant work exhausted his body and brought reprimands from his doctor. [112] Margaret Tyzack played the role of Bette in the five part serial Cousin Bette made in 1971 by the BBC, which also starred Helen Mirren as Valérie Marneffe. [7] Balzac wanted to dethrone what he called "les faux dieux de cette littérature bâtarde" ("the false gods of this bastard literature"). She reveals in the first scene that she has known for years about her husband's infidelities, but refuses to condemn him. Hanska any of the traits in Valérie's treacherous character, he felt a devotion similar to that of Hulot. Ever the courtesan, Valérie describes her new Christianity in terms of seduction: "je ne puis maintenant plaire qu'à Dieu! (1) Où la passion va-t-elle se nicher ? muttered Lisbeth. Details from the 1830s also appear in the novel's geographic locations. Écrivant rapidement avec une concentration intense, Balzac a produit La Cousine Bette, un de ses romans les plus longs, en seulement deux mois. La Cousine Bette was adapted for the stage by Jeffrey Hatcher, best known for his screenplay Stage Beauty (based on his stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty). The similarity of his name to Hector Hulot (and that of his wife's maiden name, Adèle Foucher, to Adeline Fischer) has been posited as a possible indication of the characters' origins. un résumé de La cousine Bette . Le roman explore les thèmes du vice et de la vertu, ainsi que l'influence de l'argent sur la société française de l'époque. Balzac, La cousine de Bette : résumé Le baron Hulot dépense la majeure partie de son argent pour passer du bon temps avec des courtisanes au grand dam de son épouse Adeline. Instead, Balzac may have used himself as the model; his many affairs with women across the social spectrum lead some to suggest that the author "found much of Hulot in himself". [30] Her beastly rage comes to the surface with ferocity when she learns of Steinbock's engagement to Hortense:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, La physionomie de la Lorraine était devenue terrible. Il raconte la jalousie et la soif de vengeance d’une femme, Lisbeth Fisher, envers la famille de sa cousine, les Hulot. One of these was an affair Balzac had with his housekeeper, Louise Breugniot. The tumultuous end of his affair with Louise Breugniot and the advantage she gains from his devotion to Mme. McGuire, p. 178. The Baron deserts his family and hides from his creditors. The first was in 1928, when French filmmaker Max DeRieux directed Alice Tissot in the title role. [85], The question of Adeline's virtue is similarly complicated. Anthony Pugh, in his book Balzac's Recurring Characters, says that the technique is employed "for the most part without that feeling of self-indulgence that mars some of Balzac's later work. Having spent more than a decade befriending Mme. Toute la famille s’y oppose, ce qui rend Lisbeth folle de rage. Elle avait glissé sa main crochue entre son bonnet et ses cheveux pour les empoigner et soutenir sa tête, devenue trop lourde; elle brûlait! I will make you uglier than I am. Before long, Bette has already contrived to have Crevel and Steinbock also ensnared by Valérie's charms. Il a été publié en feuilleton dans Le Constitutionnel, à la fin de l'année 1846, et constitue, avec Le Cousin Pons, publié l'année suivante, le diptyque Les Parents pauvres. Françoise Gaillard, « La stratégie de l’araignée : notes sur le réalisme balzacien ». La fumée de l'incendie qui la ravageait semblait passer par ses rides comme par autant de crevasses labourées par une éruption volcanique. The democratic spirit of the French Revolution also affected social interactions, with a shift in popular allegiance away from the church and the monarchy. Son utilisation du réalisme détaillé se combine avec un panorama des personnages qui reviennent de précédents romans. "[84] The cruelties of the Hulot children are brief but significant, owing as much to their obliviousness (intentional in the case of Victorin, who asks not to learn the details of Mme. Il arrive chez le baron Hulot d’Ervy. One critic refers to the artist's downfall as "vanity ... spoiled by premature renown". Leurs réactions sont vives, attestées par de nombreux courriers réclamant l’arrêt de ce récit que certains jugent immoral. [67] Others indicate that Balzac's interest in the theatre was an important reason for the inclusion of melodramatic elements. La Cousine Bette est un roman d'Honoré de Balzac se déroulant dans le Paris du XIXe siècle. [58] Victorin repeatedly expresses outrage at his father's philandering, yet crosses a significant moral boundary when he agrees to fund Mme. Nourrison, who offers a morally questionable remedy for their woes. [50], Adeline Hulot, on the other hand, is mercy personified. [62] Steinbock's drive is further eroded by the praise he receives for his art, which gives him an inflated sense of accomplishment. Racine, Andromaque - Balzac, La Cousine Bette - Hume, Dissertation sur les passions. Nous utilisons des cookies et des outils similaires pour faciliter vos achats, fournir nos services, pour comprendre comment les clients utilisent nos services afin de pouvoir apporter des améliorations, et pour présenter des publicités, y compris des publicités basées sur les … As she became aware of his affection for Mme. Robb, pp. The poison which kills Valérie and Crevel is also described in ghastly detail. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de réduction . Il sacrifie presque toute la fortune de sa famille dans le but de plaire à Valérie, qui finalement le quitte pour un commerçant nommé Célestin Crevel. "When the characters reappear", notes the critic Samuel Rogers, "they do not step out of nowhere; they emerge from the privacy of their own lives which, for an interval, we have not been allowed to see. Whether due to the intensity of its creation or the tumult of his personal life, the author was surprised by the praise he received. Balzac's novel has been adapted several times for the screen. Le vieux maréchal Hulot, s’estimant déshonoré, en meurt ; quant au baron Hulot, il disparaît. McGuire adds: "This gender whirligig serves to inform the dynamics of the entire narrative ...". [76][77] Some critics note that La Cousine Bette showed an evolution in Balzac's style – one which he had little time to develop. La cousine Bette, Balzac, Auto-Édition. In short, the family is devastated by these repeated blows – and Bette's machinations are completely concealed from them. La Cousine Bette . The reign of King Charles X ended in 1830 when a wave of agitation and dissent forced him to abdicate. ("He was like a woman who forgives a week of ill-usage for the sake of a kiss and a brief reconciliation. 485–486; Floyd, p. 246. [35][36], In a letter to Mme. It is Delilah—passion—that ruins everything. Almost every example arises quite naturally out of the situation. It was published in Le Constitutionnel at the end of 1846, then collected with a companion work, Le Cousin Pons, the following year. La Cousine Bette is considered Balzac's last great work. Gilroy, p. 112; Affron, p. 92; McGuire, pp. For more information about characters, see Bellos, Rogers, 182; Bellos makes a similar point in. Les personnages du roman représentent plusieurs points de vue de la morale : la vengeresse cousine Bette et l'insincère Mme Marneffe d'un côté, et de l'autre, Adeline Hulot miséricordieuse et Hortense, sa fille malade. Honoré de BALZAC: La Cousine Bette (Résumé & Analyse) Extensions autorisées ".jpg, .png, .gif" Taille 100 Pixel de large minimum et 1000 Pixel de large maximum « J'espère que La Cousine Bette t'amusera bien, on crie au chef-d'oeuvre de tous côtés, et ils ne sont pas encore arrivés au pathétique. [38] Rosalie Rzewuska disapproved of Mme. Hunt declares that she shows "more imbecility than Christian patience",[53] and David Bellos points out that, like her husband, she is driven by passion – albeit of a different kind: "Adeline's desire (for good, for the family, for Hector, for God) is so radically different from the motivating desires of the other characters that she seems in their context to be without desire ..."[54], Balzac's inspiration for the characters of Hector and Adeline remain unclear, but several critics have been eager to speculate. [8] He also wanted to show the world that, despite his poor health and tumultuous career, he was "plus jeune, plus frais, et plus grand que jamais" ("younger, fresher, and greater than ever"). It appears that Valérie, soon a widow, will marry Crevel and thus gain entrance to the Hulot family as Celestine's mother-in-law. ")[59][60], Critics also consider Steinbock important because of his artistic genius. "[109] The collected edition sold consistently well, and was reprinted nineteen times before the turn of the 20th century. Balzac was a legitimist favoring the House of Bourbon, and idolized Napoleon Bonaparte as a paragon of effective absolutist power. ("What you have to show is the power of woman. Fiche de lecture. ("I can please no one now but God. They develop a deep friendship, which many critics consider an example of lesbian affection. Even though Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes ("A Harlot High and Low"), published in segments from 1838 to 1847, was celebrated by critics, Balzac complained to Mme. La Cousine Bette, Honoré de Balzac Résumé détaillé des deux premiers chapitres : Chapitre 1 : Mi-juillet 1838 : Monsieur Crevel circule dans Paris dans un milord et arrive devant une grande maison nouvellement bâtie sur une portion de cour d’un vieil hôtel à jardin. Lisbeth Fischer, surnommée « la cousine Bette », est appelée à Paris par Adeline Hulot, sa cousine, femme admirable qui supporte les infidélités de son vieux mari, le baron Hulot, libertin éperdu. His trademark use of realist detail combines with a panorama of characters returning from earlier novels. La Cousine Bette est le récit d’une vengeance implacable, celle d’une vieille fille, Lisbeth Fischer, qui travaille à la destruction systématique d’une famille – sa famille. Baron Hulot, meanwhile, is rejected by Josépha, who explains bluntly that she has chosen another man because of his larger fortune. ")[98] This affection may have been platonic, but neighbors of the Marneffes – along with many readers – suspect that their bond transcends friendship. ("Darkness, silence, an icy chill, and the cavernous depth of the soil combine to make these houses a kind of crypt, tombs of the living. 247 and 249. C.A. Bette est la cousine nourricière de la belle Baronne d'Hulot, une femme d'origine humble qui épouse un baron de prestige et de beauté, au désespoir de la laide et pauvre cousine. La Cousine Bette Résumé Lisbeth Fischer, paysanne vosgienne montée à Paris, ne peut réussir dans la société élégante parce qu'elle est laide. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Although Balzac's La Vieille Fille (The Old Maid), 1836, was the first such work published in France,[5] the roman-feuilleton gained prominence thanks mostly to his friends Eugène Sue and Alexandre Dumas, père. [82] Mocking the use of the guillotine during the French Revolution while acknowledging her own malicious intent, Valérie says with regard to Delilah: "La vertu coupe la tête, le Vice ne vous coupe que les cheveux." The peasant-woman's face was terrible; her piercing black eyes had the glare of the tiger's; her face was like that we ascribe to a pythoness; she set her teeth to keep them from chattering, and her whole frame quivered convulsively. Like her cousin Bette, she comes from a peasant background, but has internalized the ideals of 19th-century womanhood, including devotion, grace, and deference. Bette's relationship with Valérie is also seen as an important exploration of homoerotic themes. En bref, La Cousine Bette est un roman emblématique du réalisme de Balzac dans lequel le lecteur découvre les conséquences de la jalousie d'une femme, perçue comme l'un des personnages les plus abominables de La Comédie humaine. [2], As his work gained recognition, Balzac began corresponding with a Polish baroness named Ewelina Hańska, who first contacted him through an anonymous 1832 letter signed "L'Étrangère" ("The Stranger"). [63], If Balzac's goal was (as he claimed) to write a realist novel from his "own old pen" rather than mimic the style of Eugène Sue, history and literary criticism have declared him successful. At the beginning of the story Bette is living in a modest apartment in a lodging house shared by the Marneffe couple, both of whom are ambitious and amoral. 261–262; Gerson, pp. He visited her often in Poland and Germany, but various complications prohibited their union. His decrepit body is a symbol of society's weakness at the time, worn away from years of indulgence. He also believed that Catholicism provided guidance for the nation, and that its absence heralded moral decay. [40], Bette's co-conspirator in the destruction of the Hulot family is beautiful and greedy Valérie Marneffe, the unsatisfied wife of a War Department clerk. Hanska is similar in some ways to Valérie's manipulation of Steinbock. He offers Bette a source of pride, a way for her to prove herself worthy of her family's respect. Il y a de fières scènes, va ! As one critic puts it, Victorin's decision marks a point in the novel where "the scheme of right versus wrong immediately dissolves into a purely amoral conflict of different interests and passions, regulated less by a transcendent moral law than by the relative capacity of the different parties for cunning and ruthlessness. As she nourishes him back to health, she develops a maternal (and romantic) fondness for him. 186–188; Robb, p. 172. Three officers named Hulot were recognized for their valor in the Napoleonic Wars, and some suggest that Balzac borrowed the name of Comte Hector d'Aure. [41] Because of their relationship and similar goals, the critic Frederic Jameson says that "Valérie serves as a kind of emanation of Bette". Thus he demonstrates Balzac's conviction that genius alone is useless without determination. ("Virtue cuts off your head; vice only cuts off your hair. En 1799, Adeline Fischer, fille de paysans lorrains, a conquis le baron Hulot dErvy, qui la épousée avant de devenir un haut fonctionnaire de ladministration militaire. Quoted in Maurois, p. 487. The smoke of the flame that scorched her seemed to emanate from her wrinkles as from the crevasses rent by a volcanic eruption. Writing quickly and with intense focus, Balzac produced La Cousine Bette, one of his longest novels, in two months. Valérie is devoured by Montés' poison, a consequence of her blithe attitude toward his emotion. He grew hopeful that they could marry when she became pregnant, but she fell ill in December and suffered a miscarriage. Lisbeth Fischer, surnommée « la cousine Bette », est une vieille fille s'appliquant à détruire systématiquement son entourage, avec la collaboration de Valérie Marneffe, une femme mal mariée, qui séduit et tourmente une série d'hommes. 425–426. [6] Balzac disliked their serial writing, however, especially Sue's socialist depiction of lower-class suffering. [100] The homoeroticism evolves through the novel, as Bette feeds on Valérie's power to seduce and control the Hulot men. 176–177. Fiche de 11 pages en littérature : Honoré de Balzac La Cousine Bette : résumé. C'est le cadavre de la force. For these reasons, it is considered a key antecedent to naturalist literature. ("Death thinks twice of it before carrying off a Mayor of Paris. [34] Her fierce persona is attributed partly to her peasant background, and partly to her virginity, which provides (according to Balzac) "une force diabolique ou la magie noire de la volonté" ("diabolical strength, or the black magic of the Will"). [15] Biographer Graham Robb calls La Cousine Bette "the masterpiece of his premature old age". "[52] Others are less accusatory; Adeline's nearly infinite mercy, they say, is evidence of foolishness. When his daughter urges him to meet with a priest, Crevel angrily refuses, mocking the church and indicating that his social stature will be his salvation: "la mort regarde à deux fois avant de frapper un maire de Paris!" [83], On the other side of the moral divide, Adeline and her children stand as shining examples of virtue and nobility – or so it would seem. She amuses herself by mocking her lovers' devotion, and this wickedness – not to mention her gruesome demise – has led some critics to speculate that she is actually the focus of Balzac's morality tale. The Baron has so completely lavished money on Josépha that he has borrowed heavily from his Uncle Johann – and, unable to repay the money, the Baron instead arranges a War Department post in Algeria for Johann, with instructions that Johann will be in a situation in that job to embezzle the borrowed money. ")[46], Although Balzac did not draw specifically from the women in his life to create Valérie, parallels have been observed in some areas. Après la disparition du baron, c’est sur Célestin Crevel, père de Célestine et beau-père de Victorin Hulot d'Ervy, frère d’Hortense, que s’exercent les menées du duo infernal Lisbeth Fischer-Valérie Marneffe. Members of the aristocracy, for example, were forced to relate socially to the nouveau riche, usually with tense results. When creating La Cousine Bette, however, he submitted the work to his editor piece by piece, without viewing a single proof. Bette and Valérie are pure wickedness, and even celebrate the ruin of their targets. ("I love you, I esteem you, I am wholly yours! A number of film versions of the story have been produced, including a 1971 BBC mini-series starring Margaret Tyzack and Helen Mirren, and a 1998 feature film with Jessica Lange in the title role. Le premier tiers de l'oeuvre permet à Balzac d'explorer en profondeur les histoires et trajectoires personnelles de ses personnages. The four leading female characters (Bette, Valérie, Adeline, and Hortense) embody stereotypically feminine traits. He notes that the French critic André Lorant insisted that Bette's desire for vengeance was based on imaginary insults from her family. "[26] Biographer Noel Gerson calls the characters in La Cousine Bette "among the most memorable Balzac ever sketched". Par bonté, Adeline He based the second book on a story his sister Laure Surville had written called "La Cousine Rosalie" and published in 1844 in Le Journal des enfants. L'un d'eux est Hector Hulot, mari d'Adeline Hulot, la cousine de Lisbeth. (The latter film, however, takes great liberties with the plot of Balzac's original work. The same is true of the Marneffe home at the outset: it contains "les trompeuses apparences de ce faux luxe" ("the illusory appearance of sham luxury"),[72] from the shabby chairs in the drawing-room to the dust-coated bedroom. She wonders aloud if she is capable of providing the carnal pleasures Hulot seeks outside of their home. Balzac wanted to challenge Sue's supremacy, and prove himself the most capable feuilleton author in France. La famille Hulot s’en trouve presque détruite, mais, alors que les manigances de Lisbeth Fischer semblent aboutir et qu’elle est sur le point d’épouser le maréchal Hulot, frère du baron Hulot, le scandale des frauduleuses opérations financières menées par le baron pour couvrir ses immenses dépenses éclate. As the novel progresses, he becomes consumed by his libido, even in a physical sense. Balzac's study of masculinity is limited to the insatiable lust of Hulot and the weak-willed inconstancy of Steinbock, with the occasional appearance of Victorin as a sturdy patriarch in his father's absence. La Cousine Bette est considérée comme la dernière grande œuvre de Balzac. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. The Antaeus Company in North Hollywood produced a workshop in 2008 and presented the world premiere of Cousin Bette in early 2010 in North Hollywood, California. The_Puritans` ÒÉ` ÒÊBOOKMOBI € P/ 8Ï B KB T… ]œ fï p y ‚# ‹2 ”3 W ¦Y ¯3 ¸Š ÁJ"ÊS$Ó_&ܘ(å¹*î÷,øQ. Her domination is tempered by maternal compassion, but the couple's relationship is compared to an abusive marriage: "Il fut comme une femme qui pardonne les mauvais traitements d'une semaine à cause des caresses d'un fugitif raccommodement."
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